Re: GSOC : Constraint based UI layout

2012-04-09 Thread SHIVAM HANDA
sir (sorry for the late reply), I read about garnet, and garnet in it self is a full blown Library to write UI in lisp . Its a good tool to use and its a valuable tool to be in Clojure community ( i think wort porting). But the aim of this project is not that, it is to create just an API for other

Re: GSOC : Constraint based UI layout

2012-04-08 Thread Patrick Logan
Sure. I probably sounded too critical of the project per se. I should not have implied that. A general constraint solver in and of itself is a good thing, and this seems like a good summer project. But if someone has time and or funding to look at a larger effort to improve the current state o

Re: GSOC : Constraint based UI layout

2012-04-07 Thread Kevin Lynagh
Hi Patrick, I'm the potential mentor for the GSoC Cassowary project. The goal isn't to port Cassowary---it's already implemented in Java and available in the browser via my CoffeeScript port with ClojureScript bindings: https://github.com/lynaghk/cassowary-coffee Rather, the aim of the summe

Re: GSOC : Constraint based UI layout

2012-04-06 Thread Patrick Logan
Cassowary seems like a good summer-sized project. My only concern is that browsers are already gaining fairly expressive constraint-based layout. A project that would extend beyond a summer, but move clojure to the forefront of UI development (and by "forefront" I mean "up to early 1990s state o

GSOC : Constraint based UI layout

2012-04-06 Thread SHIVAM HANDA
Hi everyone, I am Shivam Handa, a sophomore at IIT (Indian Institute of technology), Delhi majoring Computer Science and Engineering. I am intending to work on Constraint based UI layout as a GSOC project during the summer. I had a long chat with the mentor of the project Kevin Lynagh and with his